LinkedIn has been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit alleging it failed to meet "industry standard" security practices in connection with a massive data breach earlier this month, according to court documents.On June 6, users learned that hackers had gained access to LinkedIn's databases when 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords were posted to an underground forum.The lawsuit was filed Monday on behalf of a single subscriber to LinkedIn's premium services, Illinois resident Katie Szpyrka. It's seeking certification as a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all LinkedIn users.The suit claims LinkedIn failed to use "long standing industry standard encryption protocols," exposing its users' pe[...]

Eventbrite has become the go-to platform for selling tickets online. And it’s announcing a major milestone to prove it today: It’s sold more than $1 billion tickets in total. For Eventbrite, the milestone also highlights some accelerating growth. It took nearly two years — from January 2009 to December 2010 — to go from $100 million in sales to $400 million. But it only took the next 18 months or so for Eventbrite it to more than double that amount and hit $1 billion of total ticket sales.Previously Eventbrite had said that it had doubled the number of events and tickets sold on the platform in 2011. Part of its revenue growth comes from Eventbrite leveraging social n[...]

So you’ve got a shiny new mobile website to serve all those smartphone and tablet users — but how exactly are mobile visitors using your site? Forget about turning to traditional tools like Google Analytics. When it comes to mobile websites, you’re practically flying blind.Enter ClickTale Mobile, a new service launching today from web analytics firm ClickTale�that promises to show you every swipe, pinch, tilt, and other behavior from visitors to your mobile site. The goal: to let you see what’s causing users to leave your mobile site, and ultimately, to create a perfect mobile web experience.“Essentially, the technology gives you the ability to track absolutel[...]

Networking is the current big bottleneck in scale-out and virtualized data centers. It’s also the hottest hardware area around with startups such as Embrane, Nicira, BigSwitch, Vello Systems and more creating fabrics, controllers and alternatives to the current networking regimes in place. Now we can add Plexxi to that list.Plexxi has been around since 2010 and has raised $28 million from North Bridge Venture Partners, Matrix Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners in that time to build some secret switch that uses fiber optics instead of the current Ethernet connections. In a conversation last week, Plexxi’s Mat Mathews, VP of product management, explained (to a certain extent[...]